One Good Day

[Originally written on 12/22/04 (2:00pm)]
The year 2004 had come and is about to go; yet this isn't what you could call a good year. I mean, not entirely. What with all the chaos, natural disasters and big deal deaths that happened within twelve high-endurance months? Alas, you could say good riddance. I wonder what's in store for us in the year of the rooster. Will this be a time to recover from all that we have lost?

...all that we have lost. Well, first we will have to categorize the types of losses we have experienced in 2004.

Death. What great loss could be more hurting than this? It's not like cryogenics or other Frankenstein theories have already been proven to bring a life back, or, that we are already allowed to play God.

Heartbreak. Exactly what is the statistics of this loss in a year? I would think that in a year tons of relationships all over the world fail. So if you are a recent victim, just think that you are not alone in such misery. The more the merrier, eh?

Calamity. Do you have even a fraction of idea how many lives have been swept away by a tenacious typhoon? And how many they have left weeping in the cold cold nights? Do you realize how lucky you are that you didn't have to experience any of these? And that much as you weep and sympathize...you can only weep and sympathize?

Poverty. This is our country's loss of economic abundance to stand at par with the world, which is a repetition of history time and again. So, really, has anyone already sat there and waved the magic wand to rescue us from rags to riches? Just think, when was the last time you saw no beggar on the streets?
These are just to name a few.

These losses. How do they affect our lives? Where do we usually find ourselves the day after? Is there hope for us?

And then suddenly our attention is again directed toward the country we live in at present. Where have all the good days gone? You sit in a corner, taking small sips of coffee from a gigantic mug, while enjoying its aroma, then you smile and that smile fades in an instant. You realize that there cannot be enough for us to celebrate in this state. What did we do to be buried in the third world for too long? Come to think of it, a lot of neighboring countries have benefited from our teachings but we do not even size up to the knowledge we have imparted. What is the right combination to this lock? Where is the missing piece to the puzzle?

Whenever I go out and find street children begging for alms amid sunshine and rain, I couldn't stop the pain that is pounding in my heart for their inopportune toil. Just how many irresponsible conceptions will it have to take for them to fill the streets? Why such mistake? And why are they the ones to pay the price of some other people's misdoings? We cannot stop counting the many innocent lives that are endangered and destroyed everyday. We cannot fathom the paranoia we are causing our society.

Let us not wait until we can't do anything anymore. Action plans and next steps have to be taken cared of now. There shouldn't be room for second thoughts at this time. The hesitancy to decide and procrastination to make better changes will only pull us deeper into the ground. Just like our crab- mentality. We are all waiting until the time when we shall rise up from our ashes and face a brighter tomorrow. When we can again enjoy the gold pot of our nation.

That one-day is not too far away. We have to wake up and face reality, because reality will not allow us to just dream. Dreams for real people are not made by genies from Aladdin’s lamp or Cinderella's Fairy Godmother. Our dreams and aspirations are attained by our willingness to work for it, head-on in hard work. It is true that we did not stop to realize the great value of the expenditures that our parents allotted for us until we spend on our own. We had to go through the acquisition of such jewel to feel the intensity and its worth. If we work hard to obtain our goals in life, we appreciate it more. And because we achieved it in that manner we make it a point that there is continuity in what we enjoy.

Happiness is really not about having too much in life. That is not the intent of the subject matter. Happiness in life is about having enough to keep our feet rooted to stand firmly on the ground, especially when we have the intuition to realize it. So that when you go back to that little corner where you sit to sip your coffee from that gigantic mug, you really feel the grandeur and pleasure of that one good day!

© Theren Alexander 2005